Get real, hippie. Necessity is and has always been the mother of invention, and war is the ultimate creator of necessity. Technological innovation happens when governments are more willing to take risks on research. Venture capitalists are a lot more careful with where they put their money.

cool, and your condescending comment has contributed absolutely nothing to this discussion. does it make you feel empowered to pick out 5 words that detract from my main point entirely? politically correct armchair liberal trash.

Sorry @devila22080808, unless you're liberal and open to every fucked up thing liberals are okay with, you'll get downvoted. Wanting a sex change = mental illness. I would not have some freak like that watch my kids.

he brings up a good point and you say "no essay required man!"? go back to /r/farmville you have the attention span of a slug. fucking idiot. great point myworkaccount69, totally agree. the chat in blizzard games is abysmal and removes a very enjoyable human interaction that nearly every other game has. have an upboat.

You're going to call knocking everyone out with gas guns blazing? Are you kidding me? This was their best bet by a long shot. The theater in question was a tactical nightmare, and the Chechen terrorists were making ridiculous demands. If you spend more than 5 seconds thinking about it, this was clearly the best choice no matter what.

If you give the terrorists what they want, you are directly responsible for whoever they kill following the incident, as well as whoever gets inspired by such a success

If you go in and try and take them out, you are putting the hostages at a HUGE risk.

I would sacrifice 20% of the hostages for a definite rescue of the other 80% rather than take a huge risk at losing 100% of the hostages.

For all you know, the Russians who pumped gas into that building had no idea it was going to kill anyone. Maybe they were trying to keep everyone alive, but it just didn't go as planned. I'm sure there's a gas you can pump into a building to not kill anyone and still knock everyone out.

First of all, they killed maybe 20% of the hostages. Second of all, no you aren't committing the "crime" for them because the point of a hostage situation is not to kill the hostages, it's to get something else and trade the hostage's lives for whatever that something is. You can play the "high horse" part all day but in the real world tough decisions need to be made, and the best decision isn't always the best political move.

Maybe if you're shortsighted then it's a fucked up solution, but in the long run, I believe this is the most effective solution. It might be cold, but at the end of the day, you are sending a powerful and clear message to anyone who might consider committing this kind of act: "There is 0% chance of you succeeding, unless your goal is to die"

So you're saying you used the text in my post history chronicled by this web site to make a determination? Seems like you're leaving a lot up to belief. I mean, how do you know I'm not sharing this account? How do you know all of this isn't a made up post history?

By the way, the point wasn't to prove you wrong. The point was to call you a hypocrite for devoting your time into your beliefs by posting on the internet. You give true enlightened atheists like me a bad name.

Yeah, isn't it so fucking stupid that religious aholes who just think they know everything waste all this time into serving a God, who I know for a FACT and have PROVEN does not exist! Fucking religious assholes putting all of their energy into a fake ideology. I'm so fucking glad that enlightened atheists like you and me never have to deal with putting effort into a set of beliefs. We will definitely never be annoying faggots and try and spread our ideas like those assholes. Never, not even in comments on the internet. So pitiful to watch those pathetic lower forms of life devote time into their beliefs.